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A bird flew into a roofer’s face broke their nose, another employee broke a foot as running from a spider, a robotic arm grabbed a worker and inflicted trauma to her chest, and a baby skunk bit...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/05/13/323328.htm

A sting operation in Manatee County, Florida, has led to the arrest of 16 men who were working without a contractor’s license and without securing workers’ compensation insurance on their emp...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/05/03/323359.htm

Overall opioid utilization is down nearly 10%, and the use of sustained-release opioids dropped by more than 10%, a new report shows. Authors of the report credit efforts by workers’ comp regul...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/05/02/323349.htm

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Ri...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/05/02/323354.htm

A retail giant, a space launch operation, a major food processor, the nation’s two biggest rideshare providers and a large healthcare system are among those entities marked as being among the m...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/25/323164.htm

A Connecticut employer lost its right to contest a workers’ compensation claim because although it mailed its notice to the workers compensation board within the 28 day statutory period, board ...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/25/323241.htm

A new report on small business owners’ workers’ compensation insurance-buying habits and risk exposures found that 95% offer regular safety training to their employees, according to The Hanov...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/25/323177.htm

New legislation aimed at reducing workplace violence in California vastly increases employers’ responsibilities and hands workers’ compensation insurers an unprecedented oversight role that i...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/25/323218.htm

An employer cannot use an ergonomics report, showing that a work injury is statistically unlikely, to deny a workers’ compensation claim, the South Carolina Supreme Court said in an opinion tha...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323049.htm

A former chiropractor was sentenced to 54 years in state prison and ordered to pay more than $23 million in fines for his role in orchestrating a massive workers’ compensation fraud scheme tota...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/16/323064.htm

Federal workplace safety inspectors found a Missouri roofing contractor again risking the safety of its employees by failing to protect them against the construction industry’s deadliest hazard...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/12/322974.htm

Suncor Energy Inc.’s majority-owned Syncrude Canada Ltd. unit was fined C$390,000 ($287,000) for an oil-sands mine worker’s death, one of a string of fatalities that prompted an investor revo...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/12/322983.htm

A worker burned in a 2022 explosion during renovation work on the University of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium has settled his lawsuit against the project’s general contractor for $22 milli...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/08/322891.htm

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office reached a $2 million settlement against Pearl B-Star Inc., DBA Lin’s Fusion for underpaying 32 workers. Pearl B-Star violated state labor laws gover...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/08/322759.htm

Despite citations from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for similar hazards at its Shelby, Ohio facility in 2022, ArcelorMittal Tubular Products USA ...

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2024/04/03/322799.htm